Kim Jong-nam

Kim Jong-nam (10 May 1971-13 February 2017) was the eldest son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and the half-brother of Kim Jong-un. In 2001, he was expelled from the Workers' Party of Korea after falling out of his father's favor due to an attempted visit to Tokyo Disneyland, and he became a reformist and a critic of the North Korean regime. He was assassinated in Malaysia in 2017.

Biography
Kim Jong-nam was born in Pyongyang, North Korea on 10 May 1971, the illegitimate firstborn son of Kim Jong-il. Hot-tempered, sensitive, and gifted in the arts, he was described as being very similar to his father, and his father created a small movie set for Jong-nam to enjoy as a child. Starting as early as 1995, however, Kim Jong-nam made several clandestine trips to Japan, frequenting a bathhouse in the Yoshiwara red light district of Tokyo. In 1996, he joined the Ministry of Public Security and became head of the DPRK Computer Committee, developing an information technology industry. and he was expected to be his father's heir until he was caught attempting to enter Japan on a false passport in 2001 with the goal of visiting Tokyo Disneyland. He was viewed with suspicion from his father for "becoming a capitalist" while studying in Switzerland, and he insisted on reform and market-opening, contradictory to his father's Stalinist views. In 2004, he moved to Macau in China with his family, and he became a critic of his half-brother and his regime. On 13 February 2017, Kim was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia, when two women either grabbed him from behind and splashed poisonous liquid on his face, or stabbed him with poisonous needles. His death was the highest-ranking casualty of Kim's purges since the execution of Jang Sung-taek in 2013.